July 6, 2025
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New concertmaster for Bach Society

New concertmaster for Bach Society

The Netherlands Bach Society has named Cecilia Bernardini as its new concermaster, starting next season. Bernardini, 41, is Dutch-Italian and a frequent guest with the high-octane Bach outfit. She is also co-artistic director of the Freiburger […]

A rabbi rejects the Met’s Aida

A rabbi rejects the Met’s Aida

Orthodox rabbi Jeremy Rosen went to see the Verdi spectacular and dissents from the Met’s production in his weekly sermon: The music, the sets, the choreography was superb. Only one thing got in the way […]

Two Queens slug it out in Budapest

Two Queens slug it out in Budapest

The insult was so potent that the first performance of Donizetti’s historical tragedy, Maria Stuarda, was cancelled at the last minute in Naples through royal intervention. A toned-down revision went awry at La Scala the […]

Death of famed tenor, 98

Death of famed tenor, 98

Italian media have reported the death today in Mariano Comense of the great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva. Arriving in Milan in 1953 after serving in the Preuvian navy, Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo trained at […]